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Daugaard Signs Youth Minimum Wage, Vetoes Tax-related Plans

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a controversial Republican-backed measure to exempt South Dakota’s youngest workers from the $8.50 minimum wage voters approved in November, but has vetoed three obscure tax proposals that passed with mostly strong support.

Daugaard acted on the last bills from the 2015 session on Friday. He signed five proposals, including the measure that carves out a $7.50 youth minimum wage.

He vetoed a measure that would have exempted the earnings of amateur baseball coaches from the sales tax. He also dismissed a plan to slightly reduce the amount of tax burden on rural electric companies and vetoed a measure to help determine whether South Dakota’s property tax burden is a barrier for affordable housing rental businesses.

Lawmakers will consider the vetoes at the end of March.

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